rant an events licence as they are keen for the fun fair to come. So in about 2 weeks' time we will have Mannings back on Ducketts Common. I understand that there was some consideration what to do about the meadow but in the end the long relationship of Mannings with the council seemed to have won the day and Mannings got their date in June, the main flowering period of the meadow (we proposed a date from August onwards which would have been past the seed ripening period of the meadow and damage would have been little).
That said it might not make much of a difference as we lost so much of the meadow last year already and the last good areas were further decimated by the expansion of the Hampden Road gate and will be suffocated by the wild barley that was again left standing during the last lawn cuts, so, sadly, there is little meadow left which is worthwhile protecting. …
sing just north of Pemberton Road - just as Alistair suggests. This would have the added advantage of safeguarding children walking to and from South Harringay PS on Mattison/Pemberton and facilitating more elderly Mass-goers to and from St Augustine's on Mattison - just as the crossings at Fairfax, Hampden and Burgoyne benefit pupils and worshippers at North Harringay PS, St John's,the Mosque and St Paul's.
Our respondents' objection to speed humps was much as Alistair explains, taking account of pedestrians, cyclists, motorists themselves, but especially the residents. Vehicles moving at a smooth and steady sub-20mph rate cause much less noise and exhaust pollution, and less impatient use of the horn.
Remedies should not be more fatal than the disease. The traffic islands and bollards introduced when the rung-roads became a one-way 20mph system have brought more danger to pedestrians and cyclists. While each of the 20mph rung-roads has straight clear carriageway of 3.70mtrs between two rows of properly parked vehicles, Wightman Road's lanes are no more than 2.80mtrs wide, narrowing by 0.5mtr either side of each 'island', winding and dipping between rows of crazy parking on crazier pavements. Vehicles, including heavy trucks, constantly slalom around these islands at anything from 30 to 60mph, while motor bikes skip past on the wrong side and cyclists pavement-hop and 'terrorise' elderly pavement crawlers like myself. This tends to make me wonder why I pay LBH £2.5K Council Tax p.a. just for the pleasure of spending my 32nd year on Wightman Road.
As Andy said, this whole problem is a no brainer. Councillors Haley, Canver and Adamou please note. Then take a walk , preferably each pushing a twin-baby buggy or invalid's wheelchair, along the western (railway) "pavement" of our residential road from, say, Effingham to Endymion. Drop in for a skinny latte in the luxurious lounge of our very own London Shelton Hotel, while admiring the architectural grandeur and superb landscaping of Jewsons' Emporium across the road. On your way back, try executing at least three crossings of the road, say between Cavendish and Allison junctions. Throughout your stroll, breathe deeply and try to sustain a normal conversation.You may then appreciate why we too are thinking of changing our name to effingham. See you at the next Area Assembly Meeting.…
ay 2nd June. 11am – 7pm Between junctions with Muswell Hill Road and Connaught Gardens.
Chestnut Avenue, N8 Saturday 2nd June. 10am – 10pm The whole road
Ivy Gardens, N8 Saturday 2nd June 9am – 10pm The whole road
Windermere Road, N10 Saturday 2nd June. 12noon – 9pm Between junctions with Alexandra Park Road and Grosvenor Road.
Scotland Green, N17 Sunday 3rd June. 9am – 10pm The whole road.
Cranmore Way and Rookfield Avenue, N10 Sunday 3rd June 2012 9am – 10pm Between its junction with Rookfield Avenue and north-east arm of Rookfield Close and Rookfield Close.
Barnard Hill, N10 Sunday 3rd June. 12noon – 9pm Between junctions with Muswell Avenue and Colney Hatch Lane.
Linzee Road, N8 Sunday 3rd June. 2pm – 11pm Between No. 1 and No. 41 Linzee Road.
Cornwall Road, N4 Sunday 3rd June. 12:30 pm – 6pm Between junctions with Lancaster Road and Oakleigh Road.
Cholmeley Crescent, N6 Sunday 3rd June. 8am – 10pm Between northernmost junction with Cholmeley Crescent and its southernmost junction with Cholmeley Crescent.
Albert Road, N4 Sunday 3rd June. 10am – 7:30pm Between junction with Stroud Green Road and Victoria Road.
Ossian Road, N4 Sunday 3rd June. 11am – 6pm Between No. 33 and its junction with Mount Pleasant Villas
Lawrence Road, N15 Sunday 3rd June. 12noon – 3pm Outside No. 58 Lawrence Road.
Hampden Road, N17 Sunday 3rd June. 12noon – 4:30pm Between junction with Vicarage Road and the cul-de-sac.
Springcroft Avenue, N2 Sunday 3rd June. 9am – 9pm The whole road.
St. James’s Lane, N10 Sunday 3rd June. 12noon – 7pm Between junction with Alexandra Gardens and outside No. 82
Hillfield Park, N10 Monday 4th June. 5am – 11pm Between the north to south arm of Hillside Park and its junction with St. James’s Lane.
Sandringham Road, N22 Monday 4th June. 12:30pm – 8:30pm Between junctions with Rusper Road and Downhills Way.
Grove Avenue, N10 Monday 4th June. 9am – 12midnight Between junctions with Dukes Avenue and Alexandra Park Road.
Stirling Road, Burlington Road and Liston Road, N17 Monday 4th June. 12noon – 9pm Liston Road – between Burlington Road and the north to south arm and entire lengths of Burlington Road and Stirling Road.
Mount Pleasant Villas, N4 Monday 4th June. 8am – 12midnight Between junctions with The Grove and Blythwood Road
Highgate Avenue, N6 Monday 4th June. 10.30am – 16.30pm Between junctions with Southwood Avenue and Jacksons Lane
Coldfall Avenue, N10 Monday 4th June. 11am – 10pm The whole road.
Eldon Road, N22 Monday 4th June. 10:30am – 17:30pm Between junctions with Lordship Lane and Granville Road.
Rawlinson Terrace, High Road, N17 Monday 4th June. 11am – 9pm Between number 33 and the cul-de-sac.
Vartry Road, N15 Monday 4th June. 1pm – 4pm Between its junction with Richmond Road and Paignton Road.
Wolseley Road and Selborne Road, N22 Tuesday 5th June. 11am – 8pm Between junction of Ranelagh Road and Selborne Road and junction of Wolseley Road and Park Avenue.
Ellington Road, N10 Tuesday 5th June. 12noon – 6.30 pm Between junctions with Cranley Gardens and Linden Road.
Summerhill Road, N15 Tuesday 5th June. 10am – 6pm Between Elizabeth Place and access road to Redlands
Willow Walk, N15 Tuesday 5th June. 1:00pm – 6:30pm All sides of the square fronting the Peabody Estate.
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So perhaps she or he felt it was too late to call you? Though l imagine most people wouldn't mind a reassuring phonecall if they're worried about flood risk.
About the flooding on Hampden Road, getting more people to send in more complaints shouldn't be needed. In fact, it's what John Seddon calls "Failure Demand" - demand caused by a failure to do something or do something right for the service user / customer. It's a negative feedback loop which wastes everyone's time and money.
What was needed - or perhaps still is needed - is for the agencies involved (Thames Water, Network Rail, Haringey Council; and perhaps the Environment Agency?) to get to the bottom of what's happening with the water leak. Then agreeing what needs doing and who is going to do it (and pay). It's possible that all these questions have clear unequivocal answers.
Cllr David Schmitz was following this up and he may know. Can I suggest you have a chat with him.…
l was constructed. You can see from the second, third and fourth illustrations that originally, the station shed was built on the easternmost part of the station site, right on the boundary with, and towering over, the New River (The nearby buildings also extended further north, up to the boundary with Hampden Road). Clicl the image to enlarge it.
As to the stability of the wall, it seems someone has done a study of Victorian railway retaining walls, which you can read here, after making the required payment.
By the way, you can see the former northern section, as well as the old railway bridge stairs in this 1970 painting by John Godden. The painting is looking west on Hampden Road towards the railway line. The original is in the collection of Bruce Castle Museum who hold the copyright to the image.
A plan that I got along with the one above shows that, originally, going from East to West, the buildings along the northern boundary originally included:
Fitters' Shop
Coppersmiths' Shop & General Smiths
Enginemen’s Room
Carpenters’ Shop
Lamp Room Fitters’ Store
Foreman’s Room
There's a aerial photo from 1947 below, in wic you can see the surviving 1900 station shed. There's also one from the 1930s here.
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pace, not too imposing and some consideration for the neighbours in the placement of windows in terms of overlooking etc. I know CSH 4 is a requirement of most London Councils but at least these designers appear to have embraced it and made it integral to the design.
Dare i say, the street elevation drawn looks like they could of perhaps gone a storey taller compared to the neighbouring Victorian Terraces (?) but considering they are right on the edge of the underground section of the New River - probably best they didn't!
I hope they have a positive outcome and that something of quality gets built to provide a good family home and bit of animation to this empty section of streetscape.
On a similar note, has everyone seen that Cooley architects are holding a public consultation/exhibition this Monday (13th Jan) in the Greek Church on Wightman Road from 4pm to 9pm for the redevelopment of the steel yard by Hornsey Station (Hampden rd)?
(Thanks to John D for posting this).
Its great that a large industrial site might provide some more much needed housing in the area but the artist images suggest that they are perhaps cramming too many in and that they've gone about 3 storeys too high:
http://www.cooleyarchitects.com/project/view/32/
I'll reserve final judgement until i've seen the full proposal on Monday but heres a sneak peak below.
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ered a second Green Wheelie also filled with rubble...how kind of the council to provide such useful receptacles for the local illegal dumpers to transfer their waste building materials to their illegal dump sites.
Report dumping here
Oh and a reminder that the best way to use your new Green wheelie bin is to put all your recyclables in for the weekly collection
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ocuments. If I were employed by Jewson I would certainly argue that the order, as it stands, does not prohibit any vehicle from using any street in the ladder or Wightman Road for the purpose of loading or unloading at Jewson's own premises.
If the drafter had intended to say that vehicles over 7.5 tons may use only Wightman Road (rather than any of the other scheduled streets) to reach Jewson's yard, then I think different phrasing would have been needed.
That having been said, it might perhaps be sensible to review the order itself and its whole context. In the first place, when the order was made, there were no humps so far as I know. Certainly there were none in Wightman Road. In the second place, the Order is entitled "The Haringey (Prescribed Route) (No. 2) Experimental Traffic Order 1992" so we might reasonably expect an assessment of whether the experiment has been successful and whether any changes are now needed. Tightening up the text must be an option. Removing the humps from streets often used legally by heavy vehicles might be wise.
I have, over the years, found Jewson quite a handy supplier, although their Harringay yard is certainly not indispensable. They have another location on the industrial site off Tottenham Lane, N8 and Wickes is close by in Seven Sisters Road. As Jewson is one of only two or three businesses in the ladder that need heavy vehicles to trundle past residential properties, one might think it is time to press for its closure. The others are at the railway end of Hampden Road and don't seem to generate traffic south of there.
On the other hand, I am sure that Jewson's management would prefer to get their drivers to behave better than to see extremely inconvenient restrictions placed on their use of local streets.
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ese stepping patterns, which are performed whilst walking the circumferance of a circle, will relax and gently stimulate your mind, muscles and cardiovascular system.The art of Jiulong Baguazhang comes to us by way of the Li family of Sichuan province, China. It is but one part of the Li family's martial and health exercise system called Daoqiquan. While Jiulong Baguazhang is a relatively recent addition to the Li family system, the original aspects and development of the Daoqiquan arts may be traced back to a Tibetan monk known as Lama Zurdwang.Lama Zurdwang called this art the Five Circles, Six Stances, and Four Virtues. Emphasis was placed upon the development of Qi (Ch'i) power through the application of the theory of the Four Virtues: Honesty, Humility, Patience, and Sincerity. He held that if someone attempted to thoroughly apply these ethical principles, then their mind, body, and spirit would become open to the universal energy or Qi and that they would be able to use this for their own ends.…